embodies, in my opinion, what shamanism is all about; namely, the personal engagement with the manifold forces surrounding us, and the capacity to turn them into beneficent and beautiful energy patterns to bring health, love, happiness and prosperity into people's lives. Don Agustin not only engages the natural and supernatural forces surrounding us, but also the very concrete forces of modernization impinging evermore on cultures and traditions in remote areas of the world. He embraces and welcomes change, and can turn consumer objects into magical healing tools, and pollutants such as stress into fertilizer for the earth.

words, Amazon Magic describes incidents from his childhood in a small jungle town beside the Amazon River, and his early and present day experiences with the plant medicine ayahuasca. The book recounts his days of being lost in the remote depths of the jungle which resulted in his living a year with an Indian tribe. This book provides a fascinating look into the cultural life of the Peruvian Amazon as seen through the eyes of someone who is an integral part of this life, and provides a rare insight into the forces that helped shape the life of a profound healer who is now highly regarded in many parts of the world.

sacred plants and the healers who administer them, deep in the Amazon rainforest. He explains the process and theory of the powerful brew made by the shamans known as "Ayahuasca."